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Las Vegas,Nevada REVIEW - JOURNAL May 6, 1947 (Chamber Directors Talk W ater Plans J f f f Preliminary steps toward the establishment a ™a+ ui d i s t S T ? h e ycityS Las V egas w W c h W d ^ e g , supply of domestic water,“-were taken lasteveni g y boa?dyof directors of:ihe Garrett Bromfield and company, of Denver, had“explained the set­up as proposed under a prelim­inary survey, it was voted to have the chamber committee con­tact the Union Pacific railroad company to determine whether that organization would be will-ting to negotiate for the_s^e of the Las Vegas Land an d Water company distribution system to the district. | , r j ^ A. C. Grant, chairman of t h e [public service committee, of the chamber, was delegated to con ta cith e rail officials and report back to the board of S e c to r s i within a weds, as' to the« com pany’s attitude. If-th e railroad company is favorable to such ne­gotiations, then furth®r. st.e,?s be taken to accomplish the for mation of a the new statuwtaet epra* ssed,tr b^y\ £thee rret - cent legislature, and start nego tiations for the locsS water sys­tem, as well as that now m use at the Basic Magnesium Proie“ - In presenting.;^)!-? ; engineers , report to the chamber directors Grant said the engineers who made the survey had struck at the root of Las Vegas’ trouble m respect to water and had offered ?a solution , with regard .to domes­tic Water. He said, however, that the problem- of, industrial water ( [had not been solved in the sur­vey, but a Supplementary probe probably could be made to bring ’about this development:. He said: also that the P1®1^ inary survey did not bring m 9 plav the development _ of sux ficient water for agricultural use in the valley and that the farther study might bring a ^luLon to the irrigation of some 1,200 acre of land in ,“our front yard coun-tr Grant said that before any- 1 thing is done along the line of the j formation of the district, the com-mittee should know the attitude of the railroad company re§a5~‘ ing the feeling on release of the water system to the district. He said 75 per cent of the benefit would accrue to the city of Las Vegas, and therefore a .distribu­tion system must be available be­fore the entire plan would be ^ T h e plan for the water system to ,be set up by the water district calls for the construction of a pipe line from the present BMP line, down through the valley into Las Vegas, mto the water system here, with branch lines going out the highway strip and to the Las Vegas army air field. Such a project would tosure domestic w a t e r , in P i t i f u l quantities, for a community of more than 40,000 persons and, in addition, would protect the artes­ian flow of wells in the valley by believing the withdrawals to a point where the replenishment I from year to year would about equal the withdrawals. The engineers presented an elaborate plan to the chamber and, as soon as the attitude of the ' Union Pacific is determined on the city water system, the plan will be discussed further and the